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Read more: Pro-choiceI have a new t-shirt. On the front are these words: “Pro-choice–The radical notion that women are people and can make their own decision about…
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Read more: Work to be done“Juneteenth is freedom, but we are not free until all of us are free. There’s still work to be done,” says Opal Lee. I found…
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Read more: A joyful heartThese are words from a Bob Dylan song. “May your heart be always joyful. May your song always be sung. May you stay forever young.”…
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Read more: Fragile?The artist Frida Kahlo is credited with this quote: “Not fragile like a flower Fragile like a bomb” I recently saw a Frida Kahlo exhibit…
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Read more: Too educated, too strongIn 1979, Wangari Maathai’s husband filed for divorce. He was quoted as saying that he wanted a divorce because his wife was “too educated, too…
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Read more: Educate all of the girlsWangari Maathai was born in Kenya in 1940—when girls were not supposed to be educated. Fortunately, her father decided to send her to boarding school…
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Read more: Keep singingMy friends and I joke that we are going to solve all of the world’s problems. Of course, we aren’t going to solve all of…
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Read more: Weeds are flowers too?!I have some friends who have political opinions I don’t agree with, friends who can be a bit disagreeable, sometimes a bit cranky or unkind.…
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Read more: Pain and hateWhy do people cling to their hateful ideas? James Baldwin once explained, “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly…
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Read more: My Texas peachIt’s summer in Texas, and we’re all complaining about the weather. However, this morning I ate yogurt with a delicious Texas peach. It was a…